Furniture Painters in Reigate, Redhill and the Surrounding Area

We cover both towns and the villages and suburbs that surround them. Bletchingley to the east, Merstham to the north, South Park and Woodhatch within Reigate itself, Meadvale and Earlswood on the Redhill side. If you're in a village within a few miles of either town centre, mention it when you call — the chances are good that you're already on our route.

The same collection run that brings us to Reigate and Redhill also takes us north towards Banstead, Tadworth, Caterham, Purley, and occasionally Croydon. If you're in one of those areas and have been wondering whether we come that far, the answer is that we often do. It's worth a call.

Reigate Hill has a reputation for slowing things down that doesn't really match the reality of making the journey regularly. Traffic through the area is rarely a problem — the approach from the north via the A217, or coming in from the A25 through Redhill, is straightforward at most times of day. We've never arrived late to a collection in this part of Surrey because of traffic.

If you're in the centre of Reigate and you're wondering about access or parking for a large piece, it's worth mentioning when you call. We plan the practicalities in advance and have managed every collection we've undertaken in the area without difficulty.

These are the pieces that come out of Reigate and Redhill homes most consistently, and both are exactly the kind of furniture that repainting serves well.

A dresser — particularly a pine or oak dresser from the 1980s or 90s — is a large, visible piece that tends to define the colour of a room more than any other single item. When the room changes around it and the dresser doesn't, it becomes the thing you notice rather than the thing that holds the room together. Painting it in the right colour, with the right finish, corrects that. We use Annie Sloan chalk paint for dressers where a softer, more period look is wanted; Dulux Diamond eggshell or the Heritage eggshell for a cleaner, harder-wearing result. The choice depends on the piece, the room, and the light.

Chests of drawers are more varied — in size, in wood, in condition. A mahogany chest from a master bedroom is a different proposition from a pine three-drawer from a spare room, though both are worth painting. The main consideration is always the drawer fit: old drawers swell slightly after painting if the clearance is already snug, and we account for that in the preparation rather than leaving it to chance.

What connects the enquiries we get from across the Reigate and Redhill area is the housing stock. The suburbs here — Reigate's tree-lined residential streets, the villages like Bletchingley with their older cottages and larger plots — contain solid, well-kept furniture in homes that have been looked after. The brief is rarely to transform a piece of poor-quality furniture into something it isn't. It's to bring good furniture into line with a room that has moved on.

That's a straightforward brief, and one we're well practised at.

Single pieces — a chest, a dresser, a set of chairs — are back within two weeks of collection. Larger commissions or multiple pieces collected together follow the same timescale. Because we plan Reigate and Redhill collections as part of a wider south and east Surrey run, we'll agree a collection date that fits your schedule and ours — usually within ten to fourteen days of your collection.